.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 257 116
Rank change year-on-year -58 -141 +28
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 363 527 1,730
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.60% 1.21% 2.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.40% 5.42% 11.37%
Number of salaries quoted 332 381 1,666
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £99,750 £95,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,717 9,721 15,212
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.06% 22.27% 22.75%
Number of salaries quoted 5,154 5,993 12,934
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -9.19%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £112,450 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,212 £61,500
% change year-on-year -1.83% +7.66% -8.89%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 21 February 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 21 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -58 107 £55,000 - 53
London -3 98 £80,000 +6.67% 55
North West -18 66 £55,000 - 36
South East -58 51 £60,000 +11.11% 57
Midlands -15 48 £65,000 +23.81% 23
East Midlands -14 37 £65,000 +23.81% 13
South West -4 36 £55,000 -24.14% 22
Yorkshire -51 23 £40,000 -20.00% 11
North East -18 18 £55,000 +22.22% 7
East of England -7 16 £73,750 +47.50% 23
West Midlands -23 11 £45,000 -14.29% 10
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (1.65%) IIS
2 2 (0.55%) CMS
2 2 (0.55%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.28%) Confluence
3 1 (0.28%) Kentico
3 1 (0.28%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 2 (0.55%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 216 (59.50%) Azure
2 83 (22.87%) AWS
3 57 (15.70%) Azure DevOps
4 47 (12.95%) Serverless
5 36 (9.92%) SaaS
6 30 (8.26%) GitHub
7 22 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
8 21 (5.79%) Power Platform
9 20 (5.51%) Azure Functions
10 18 (4.96%) Azure AKS
11 16 (4.41%) Azure Logic Apps
12 15 (4.13%) AWS Lambda
13 14 (3.86%) Amazon S3
13 14 (3.86%) AWS Step Functions
13 14 (3.86%) Azure Monitor
14 13 (3.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 13 (3.58%) Amazon EventBridge
14 13 (3.58%) Amazon SQS
14 13 (3.58%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (3.03%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.65%) Internet
2 1 (0.28%) AMQP
2 1 (0.28%) HTTP
2 1 (0.28%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (39.67%) SQL Server
2 31 (8.54%) Azure SQL Database
2 31 (8.54%) MongoDB
2 31 (8.54%) NoSQL
3 25 (6.89%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (4.41%) Power BI
5 13 (3.58%) DynamoDB
6 12 (3.31%) MySQL
6 12 (3.31%) Relational Database
7 11 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (1.10%) Redis
9 3 (0.83%) NonStop SQL
10 2 (0.55%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.28%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.28%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 51 (14.05%) Git
2 10 (2.75%) Visual Studio
3 6 (1.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 5 (1.38%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.10%) JIRA
6 3 (0.83%) Vite
6 3 (0.83%) webpack
7 2 (0.55%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.55%) MSTest
7 2 (0.55%) NUnit
7 2 (0.55%) Selenium
8 1 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.28%) CA Release Automation
8 1 (0.28%) GitLab
8 1 (0.28%) JMeter
8 1 (0.28%) Postman
8 1 (0.28%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 42 (11.57%) Finance
2 37 (10.19%) Social Skills
3 17 (4.68%) Law
4 13 (3.58%) Games
5 12 (3.31%) Public Sector
6 10 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.20%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (1.93%) Banking
8 7 (1.93%) Front Office
8 7 (1.93%) Legal
9 4 (1.10%) Marketing
10 3 (0.83%) Advertising
10 3 (0.83%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.83%) Retail
10 3 (0.83%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.55%) Automotive
11 2 (0.55%) Back Office
11 2 (0.55%) Local Government
11 2 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.28%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 251 (69.15%) Developer
2 123 (33.88%) .NET Developer
3 99 (27.27%) Senior
4 83 (22.87%) Software Developer
5 65 (17.91%) C# Developer
6 61 (16.80%) Senior Developer
7 49 (13.50%) Software Engineer
8 48 (13.22%) Full-Stack Developer
9 45 (12.40%) Lead
10 35 (9.64%) C# .NET Developer
11 27 (7.44%) .NET Software Engineer
12 25 (6.89%) Lead Developer
13 24 (6.61%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 24 (6.61%) Senior Software Engineer
14 23 (6.34%) Senior Software Developer
15 22 (6.06%) React Developer
15 22 (6.06%) Senior .NET Developer
16 20 (5.51%) Senior C# Developer
17 19 (5.23%) Azure Developer
18 18 (4.96%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 363 (100.00%) .NET
2 122 (33.61%) ASP.NET
3 101 (27.82%) React
4 82 (22.59%) .NET Framework
5 58 (15.98%) AngularJS
5 58 (15.98%) RESTful
6 50 (13.77%) HTML
7 48 (13.22%) CSS
7 48 (13.22%) Entity Framework
8 46 (12.67%) Blazor
9 39 (10.74%) ASP.NET Core
10 35 (9.64%) ASP.NET MVC
11 31 (8.54%) ASP.NET Web API
11 31 (8.54%) Vue
12 28 (7.71%) Node.js
13 26 (7.16%) REST
14 19 (5.23%) HTML5
15 13 (3.58%) AWS CDK
15 13 (3.58%) CSS3
15 13 (3.58%) Dapper ORM
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.26%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.41%) Greenfield Project
3 12 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (3.31%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 11 (3.03%) AI Agents
4 11 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (2.20%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.93%) Sports Betting
7 6 (1.65%) 3D Graphics
7 6 (1.65%) Hedge funds
8 5 (1.38%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.10%) Digital TV
9 4 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.10%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.83%) Fixed Income
10 3 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.83%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.55%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.48%) VMS
2 4 (1.10%) Windows
3 3 (0.83%) Linux
4 1 (0.28%) Android
4 1 (0.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (35.81%) Agile
1 130 (35.81%) Full-Stack Development
2 106 (29.20%) CI/CD
3 102 (28.10%) Software Engineering
4 92 (25.34%) Microservices
5 86 (23.69%) DevOps
6 65 (17.91%) MVC
7 61 (16.80%) Containerisation
8 51 (14.05%) Continuous Improvement
9 47 (12.95%) SDLC
10 41 (11.29%) Clean Code
11 37 (10.19%) Problem-Solving
12 32 (8.82%) Scrum
13 31 (8.54%) Mentoring
14 30 (8.26%) Collaborative Culture
15 29 (7.99%) OO
16 28 (7.71%) Analytics
17 27 (7.44%) AI
17 27 (7.44%) Infrastructure as Code
18 24 (6.61%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 310 (85.40%) C#
2 146 (40.22%) SQL
3 111 (30.58%) JavaScript
4 49 (13.50%) TypeScript
5 24 (6.61%) Python
6 16 (4.41%) PowerShell
7 9 (2.48%) Kusto Query Language
7 9 (2.48%) Rust
8 8 (2.20%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.10%) Bash
9 4 (1.10%) Bicep
10 3 (0.83%) Erlang
10 3 (0.83%) Java
10 3 (0.83%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.55%) PHP
12 1 (0.28%) C++
Qualifications
1 30 (8.26%) Degree
2 14 (3.86%) Security Cleared
3 11 (3.03%) AWS Certification
3 11 (3.03%) AWS Certified Developer
4 10 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.48%) SC Cleared
6 6 (1.65%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.38%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.41%) QA
2 5 (1.38%) Accessibility
2 5 (1.38%) WCAG
3 2 (0.55%) GDPR
3 2 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.55%) SLA
4 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.28%) ITGC
System Software
1 83 (22.87%) Docker
2 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 60 (16.53%) Kubernetes
2 30 (8.26%) Terraform
3 2 (0.55%) Ansible
Vendors
1 97 (26.72%) Microsoft
2 5 (1.38%) Google
3 3 (0.83%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (0.83%) Databricks
3 3 (0.83%) Facebook
3 3 (0.83%) YouTube
4 2 (0.55%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (0.55%) Foundry
4 2 (0.55%) ION Trading
4 2 (0.55%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.28%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.28%) IBM
5 1 (0.28%) Okta
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle